The Dinosaur Feather - Softcover

Sissel-Jo Gazan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857380338 ISBN 13: 9780857380333

Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc, 2011

Synopsis

Biology graduate Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor Lars Helland is found dead in his office, his severed tongue lying on his bloodied shirtfront, a copy of her thesis lying in his lap.

Police Superintendent Soren Marhauge is assigned to unravel what appears to be a multitude of intrigues in the Biology Department of Copenhagen University. Helland had been deliberately infected with a rare parasite that only an expert in the field would have access to. But when Anna Bella's fellow graduate and close friend is also killed, the murders seem to be linked not only to the university but also to Anna herself. As Marhauge investigates he comes up against the vicious competition for academic success, dark secrets from the past - all against the fabulous backdrop of palaeontology's age-old mysteries.

Suspenseful, compelling, richly detailed and stunningly researched, The Dinosaur Feather unveils a sparkling mosaic of related destinies as well as a sinister web of lies.

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Review:

'Sissel-Jo Gazan has mastered the arts of suspense and revelation' Kristeligt Dagblad.

'Sissel-Jo Gazan's novel has by far outdone, not to say outshone, all other crime novels published this year' Politiken.

'The Dinosaur Feather is simply first class' Jyllands-Posten. --Reviews.

From the Back Cover:

How could one man inspire such hatred?
Professor Lars Helland is found at his desk with his tongue lying in his lap. A violent fit has caused him to bite through it in his death throes. A sad but simple end. Until the autopsy results come through.
The true cause of his death - the slow, systematic and terrible destruction of a man - leaves the police at a loss. And when a second member of Helland's department disappears, their attention turns to a postgraduate student named Anna. She's a single mother, angry with the world, desperate to finish her degree. Would she really jeopardise everything by killing her supervisor?
As the police investigate the most brutal and calculated case they've ever known, Anna must fight her own demons, prove her innocence and avoid becoming the killer's next victim.
The Dinosaur Feather is the most fascinating, complex and unusual Scandinavian crime novel since Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Quercus Publishing Plc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857380338
• ISBN 13: 9780857380333
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400